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100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE
By
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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100 Years of Solitude - MonkeyNotesKEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING The setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude is the fictional town of Macondo, Columbia, which is much like García Márquez’s own hometown of Aracataca. The time is span is unclear at times, but it is roughly from the early-mid 19th century to the mid-20th century. Macondo is isolated, rural, and surrounded by jungle. CHARACTERS Major Characters Úrsula Iguarán TheBuendía matriarch who keeps the story of the pig’s tail alive in the family; as she ages, she shrinks, until she looks like a doll and people have forgotten she is still even alive. José Arcadio Buendía The Buendía patriarch who marries his cousin but is prevented from consummating the marriage for months because of fears surrounding the story of the pig’s tail; discovers Macondo and kills PrudencioAguilar. Melquíades The mysterious gypsy who is the friend of José Arcadio Buendía; returns periodically to Macondo, even when he is thought dead. His parchment turns out to be the story of the Buendías written in Sanskrit…………… CONFLICT Protagonist There is no one protagonist in this novel. It is the story of a family, the Buendías. Collectively, the family is the protagonist Certain charactershave……… Antagonist If there is an antagonist in One Hundred Years of Solitude, it is……… Climax The climax occurs at…… Outcome The Buendías, their memory………

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION AUTHOR INFORMATION Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6, 1928 in the rural Colombian town of Aracataca. Primarilyhis grandparents, who he claims are the source of his stories and his style, raised him. He worked as a journalist for a while, and then spent many years "becoming a writer." By 1965, he had written two novels, a novella, and a collection of stories, and had worked on some films with Carlos Fuentes, but none of this would mark him as one of the great 20th century writers. In 1965, he began towrite One Hundred Years of Solitude. How he wrote it is a story which itself has achieved mythic status: according to García Márquez,……. LITERARY/HISTORICAL INFORMATION One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is one of the classic examples of "magical realism." A good, but simple definition of magical realism is fiction in which the supernatural or magical occurs within the realm of the everyday withoutattracting excessive attention to itself. Although one could apply this term to many different texts……….. CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH NOTES CHAPTER 1 Summary novel begins by telling us that in the future Colonel Buendía will remember when his father took him to see ice. We are also told that the colonel will face a firing squad and that in the not-toodistant past, Macondo was a very small village.Early in the town’s past, gypsies would visit and bring in elements from the outside world; for example, one March, they brought magnets to the town and Melquiades sold a pair to José Arcadio Buendía. Instead of the gold that he had hoped to uncover, José Arcadio Buendía only found an old suit of armor. The next year he traded the two magnets along with three gold coins for a telescope, which ended upbeing equally worthless. He spent long hours with the telescope and maps and discovered that the world was round, which his wife, Úrsula, thought crazy. We are introduced to Melquiades, who in the beginning appears to be José Arcadio Buendía’s age, but by the next time the gypsies return, he looks much older. Melquiades is in a constant struggle with death, having survived countless...